Walk the edge

A collection of thoughts

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Writing keeps me inspired. It's the travelling of thoughts that gives me mindful experiences.

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Floating hope. Myanmar. 2012

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A sketch a day. 

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Travelling through nature and culture. Taiwan, October 2014.

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News printing press. The oldest surviving printing press in Taipei, Taiwan. October 2014

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Tranum, Jutland. Denmark. August 2014

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Louisiana, Denmark. Literature on grass. May 2014. 

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Portugal. Travelling with an Artist. Jan 2014. 

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Copenhagen, Christianhavn. My first home. 2013

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What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the machine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differently, which is why art has moral force. Ruskin was right, though for the wrong reasons, when he talked about art as a moral force. Art is not about good behaviour, when did you last see a miracle behave well? Art makes us better people because it asks for our full humanity, and humanity is, or should be, the polar opposite of the merely mechanical. We are not part of the machine either, but we have forgotten that. Art is memory — which is quite different [from] history. Art asks that we remember who we are, and usually that asking has to come as provocation — which is why art breaks the rules and the taboos, and at the same time is a moral force.

Jeanette Winterson

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We construct the experience of time in our minds, so it follows that we are able to change the elements we find troubling — whether it’s trying to stop the years racing past, or speeding up time when we’re stuck in a queue, trying to live more in the present, or working out how long ago we last saw our old friends. Time can be a friend, but it can also be an enemy. The trick is to harness it, whether at home, at work, or even in social policy, and to work in line with our conception of time. Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality. Time is not only at the heart of the way we organize life, but the way we experience it.

- Claudia Hammond

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Water Bodies

Some like lakes, stay still with living mysteries within

Some like swamps, infest and proliferate

Some are moving rivers that flow, fall and spread

They flow in search for truth, in search for love and a new state

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Often when I sit in a vehicle, I begin to think about life as if the vehicle is the transportation through thoughts

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It's things of great beauty that cannot live in this world forever